Unfortunately, I had fallen prey to the endearment effect (I just can remember in which book I read about that effect): the shirts were much more worth for me than for anybody else. I did not want to give or throw them away. The collage above shows some of the shirts’ decorations.

Most of them held dear memories, for example the one with the Woinowski family crest:

The coat of arms on the shirt has a peculiar story. I had gotten hold of a small copy of the original crest in black and white. It was from an historical crest collection book. To enlarge it, I scanned it with a hand scanner (long time ago…) and printed it out.

Then I manually colored it according to the color code given in the crest book (no color printers at that time, at least no affordable ones with good quality). Finally, I went to a custom t-shirt shop.

While the black and white files are long lost together with some floppy disk, the photography of the shirt still exists.